The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-07-29
ABOUT FALSE HAIR.
A Dealer Tells Where 1t Comes From, and
How 1T Is Obtained.

A Dealer Tells Where 1t Comes From, and
How 1t is Obtained.
NEARLY all the false hair that Is sold
in this country" said dealer, recent
ly, ''is brought from France and Ger
many. 1t is obtained In those coun-
tries from the peasant girls. The Ber-
lin and Paris merchants send their
agents out through the country dis
tricts, and, whenever one of these
agents meets lass with a fine crop of
hair, he Immediately begins to bargain
with her. As rule the peasants know
so little of the world, and are so utterly
ignorant of the value of things, that
they generally sell their hair at the
most ridiculously low prices 1t is
nothing uncommon to see a French
peasant girl dispose of the most mag
nificent suit of hair, suit that would
sell for seventy-five dollars, for a
worthless earring or string of bright
looking beads. Ii these merchants
meet a girl on the road whose hair at
tracts them, they never give the poor
girl time to think, or opportunity to go
home and consult her parents, but the
moment she says yes, out come their
shears and off goes her magnificent
hair, and the poor child's only
return is a worthless trinket. II
seems sad, but such is life = at
least hair-mcrchant life. After the
hair has been all collected and brought
into Paris and Berlin, it is then put
through a cleaning process and assort-
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comes from the head. there is, no mat
ter how clean person tries TO keep
her or himself, more or less dandruff.
The hair is passed through sort OF
wire net or chain. the wires of which
are so close together that the hairs
themselves can scarcely pass through
You would think this would cut the
hair, but it does not 1t only gets the
dirt of. and it does so most effeetually
After the hair is thus thoroughly clean
ed, it is assorted in proper eolors, quail
titles and lengths. Then the black hair is
again run over and three more piles
are made of 1.-THE long black hairs,
the medium and the short The light
hair is similarly assorted. Then the
dealers mix the black and light hairs
together and make from them differ
ent shades. BY mixing a jet black.
for instance, with a color two
shades lighter than jet black
you get a color exactly one
shade lighter, and this is the
rule all through the different eombina-
tions of hair eolors. A color mixed
with another color that is two shades
lighter than itself will produce a color
one shade lighter, and shade that ap-
pears to be perfectly natural. If the
hair is mixed with color that is more
than two shades it will produce q
streaky combination, which is, OF
course, TO be avoided; but when the
mixing is properly done not even an
expert can tell the difference between
the real color and the color that is the
result of this skillful manipulation.
The French are the most expert hair.
mixers in the world, and many a blonde
or brown suit of hair that looks so per
fectly natural Is. in reality. the product
of two different heads, and all the re
suit of the ingenieusFrench hair-mixers
What does head of hair cost? Well
of course, there is in hair, as IN every.
thing else, an immense variety OF
kinds, and consequently an i'm
mense variety of prices. Head:
of hair can be bought as low a;
fifteen dollars, and there are many thai
bring seventy-five dollars. For thi:
latter price l should say thas the very
best suit of hair that can be fou d in
Boston can be purchased. 1t does not
cost woman. or. l should probably
say in order to keep in the fashion, s
Mrs Lady, as much to purchase hel
hair now as it did three or four year!
ago. The Mrs Ladies do not veal
near so much hair now as they die
then, as any one, even Mr.. Gentle
man, can see by glancing at one O
their heads. Consequently, while i
formerly cost fashionable femal,
from one hundred to one hundred ant
fifty dollars to perfectly adorn he
head. supposing, of course. that sh,
had no hair at all to start with. The
same female can now buy the very bes
head gear in Boston at from fifty t.
seventy-five dollars. Is there mucl
false hair worn in Bostonp Oh, an i'm
mense deal of it. / indulge in no exag
geration when say that there are no
five women in one hundred who d,
not wear some false hair. ."-BoSto,
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